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Originally Posted by chielgirl
Hassle and risk? I flew to Barcelona for €12.50 round.
What hassle and risk?
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Same here. My husband and I flew all over Europe with Ryanair (80+ times) for less than the price of a dinner, and that's with regular price tickets. During the 1-cent sales, which happened several times a year and last two or three weeks each time, we could fly anywhere in Europe for only the cost of sale taxes.
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Originally Posted by chilaili
Nothing would surprise me about this cheap-ass airline
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"Cheap-ass" airline? Yes, it is a cheap airline, but it is a GOOD and CHEAP airline. As I mentioned earlier in the thread, a major airline would charge 10X more than Ryanair without better comfort or guarantee of luggage arriving at the same destination with passengers. BA lost my husband's two large suitcases and couldn't find them for 23 days. Over the Christmas season when temperature was 15 below in Celsius. He arrived in Italy with only the clothes on his back, I had to run all over creation to buy shirts, pants, underwear, sweaters, scarves, gloves, and heavy coat for him. BA's compensation for his freezing body: $175.
$300 OW with major airlines or $35 RT with discount airlines? No contest.
Could any of the people who participate in this thread fly to Mexico for $35 RT? Or drive to Canada and back for the price of 3/4 of a tank of gas?
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Originally Posted by k374
I never have and WILL never travel by this crappy airline even if they are free... it's just too much of a hassel and risk to my travel plans.
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If you have never used "this crappy airline", where do you get the idea that it's crappy, hassle, and risky? Would it be asking too much that you should learning the facts from the people who have
plenty of personal experience with the subject matter before forming your rash opinion?
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Originally Posted by Rob702
Not a big fan of Ryanair anyway. This is one more reason not to fly with them. For me, usually the big carriers such as British Airways or Lufthansa are just a few Euros more expensive but offer a lot more. Free luggage, food and drinks, hand baggage and a personal item and the biggest plus: They don't fly to airports in the middle of nowhere where you need to pay lots of money for busses or trains just to get to your final destination.
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No, it's not "a few Euro more". It's often hundreds of Euro more.
Yes, Ryanair
mostly (not always) use minor airports, but that's the reason airport taxes on the tickets are insignificant.
Yes, you do need to use shuttle or metro to the city centres, but the cost is little or very little.
In all the cities and countries that Terravision shuttle company operates, Ryanair has a contract with the company to transport passengers from airport to downtown (or reverse) for €6. No schedule needed because the shuttle's runs are timed to coincide with all Ryanair and easyJet flights.
In other destinations where Terravision has yet to reach, shuttle cost is insignificant (€2 Santander to Bilbao, €6 Schönefeld to Berlin, €12 Girona to Barcelona, €20 Beauvais to Paris, etc.)
As far as luggage goes, the majority of Ryanair passengers are business travellers who do not take many pieces of packed-to-the-gills luggage so they are fine with just carry-on (which is free, no matter who says otherwise). The leisure travellers know what to do when they fly with Ryanair so they also act accordingly. My husband and I
always travel with
only a roll-on and a shoulder bag between the two of us. We had never paid for luggage with Ryanair or easyJet. We don't do that in the States either, where
all airlines charge $25 on the average for each piece of check-in luggage.
Free food? Who gives free food on flights less than 2 hours in duration? Not BA, not Lufthansa, not any airlines in the States, unless you count water, soft drink or coffee (sometimes without peanuts) as nourishments.
We just returned from two 6.5 hours coast-to-coast flights with Delta, with one a red-eyed. Once during the daytime flight and twice during the red-eyed, we were asked, "Water, coffee, tea or soft drink? Cookies, pretzels or peanuts?" The answer was
not supposed to be "all of the above". It's take your pick, only one item of food and one item of drink at a time, mind you.
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